wraggster
October 11th, 2014, 21:25
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/65ca3957e9c5d78919b0dd7286e75c58/200323855/201401lb2-4801JT.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/08/googles-developer-emulator-is-ready-for-64-bit-apps/)There's a lot to look forward to in Android's next major update (http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/25/android-l/), but hardware nerds are focusing in one one key feature: official support for 64-bit mobile chips. It's the mobile OS' inevitable future, and chip-makers have been preparing for (http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/12/nvidia-details-64-bit-tegra-k1/) it for quite awhile (http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/09/qualcomm-snapdragon-410/). Now app developers can jump in, too: Google announced today that a x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image is available for developers that want to take their apps to the next generation. Not every dev will need to rebuild, however -- apps built in Java will automatically benefit from the 64-bit release's increased accessibility to memory and registers. Choose another language? Well, you'll need to recompile: head over to the source (https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html) to start testing your apps in 64-bit.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/08/googles-developer-emulator-is-ready-for-64-bit-apps/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/08/googles-developer-emulator-is-ready-for-64-bit-apps/